Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland! Beware of!

[Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 05:11:14PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote

> Do you have that little faith in the Gentoo Developers, that you
> think we'd make a USE flag change that made everyone's systems
> suddenly break?
> 
> :(

  I was around way back when "ipv6" became the default.  I was using
Firefox back then.  Type in a URL; Firefox spins its wheels for 60
seconds in IPV6; it finally gives up and drops down to IPV4.  This
happened with every URL.

  After that I ran with USE="-* yada yada yada" for quite some time.
Currently, I'm less extreme, merely disabling a bunch of USE flags...

USE="X apng ffmpeg introspection jpeg opengl openmp png truetype x264 x265 xorg threads vala -acl -caps -clang -context -elogind -filecaps -graphite -gstreamer -haptic -iptables -ipv6 -libav -llvm -manpager -pam -sendmail -spirv -tofu -su -udisks -upower -wayland"

  The "szip" and "xinerama" USE flags seem to have disappeared.

  And who can forget the move from /dev/hda hdb hdc etc., to /dev/sda
sdb sdc etc.?  Machine literally unbootable on the newly compiled
kernel.  Fortunately, I always have "Production" and "Experimental"
kernels.  The newly compiled kernel is always "Experimental".  If things
go badly, I drop back to the "Production" kernel and try to figure out
what went wrong.  Only after a long while do I execute my "promote"
script that copies "Experimental" over top of "Production".

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